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by mighmi 3y ago
Consider that buildings in Venice are all on wood pilings. The water eventually petrifies them into stone!
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by mighmi 3y ago
In India, voice-based UIs are extremely important in the local app ecosystem, because of wide illiteracy in rural areas.
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by mighmi 3y ago
30% of Russia isn't white.
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by mighmi 3y ago
Any recommendations on a textbook to understand this kind of math?
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by mighmi 3y ago
> infra is competing with potentially cheaper For example? The managed or cloud or... solutions are normally magnitudes more expensive than in house. PaaS are the closest in cost, due to the admin savings etc. but even there, we know cur
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by mighmi 3y ago
Very detailed design documents can also be lovely. I've personally worked at a few organizations where expected behavior was ironed out before we started building it. (Banking, Engineering etc. will be used to decision flows, so this c
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by mighmi 3y ago
Ah, what beautiful paradigms there are which we toil away without. Retro (a modern Forth) looks very interesting. The textbook Thinking Forth is near SICP in terms of opening your mind to a new paradigm. Is anyone using Forth in production
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by mighmi 3y ago
Someone guy this site: https://upallnight.wtf/screens/screens whose tds shows that it's modern, but follows the right aesthetic.
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by mighmi 3y ago
The first time I found and read wikipedia was after discovering warhammer 40k. There was a single page with fluff about everything up to that point. It took me a few days to read through after school. The effort in that article could have m
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by mighmi 3y ago
Conworlding is a big thing, although people mostly work out the politics and history of invented nations, or their languages, fauna is a very honorable pursuit too!
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by mighmi 3y ago
Stumbleupon?
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by mighmi 3y ago
Stumbleupon literally built me as a person. All of my hobbies besides programming (came from Runescape, that classmates showed me) come from forums etc. Stumbleupon showed me, like conlangs via Tolkien's languages.
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by mighmi 3y ago
Old OS UIs pursued fascinating directions ours didn't keep up with, like Plan9's Acme, a 3-button-mouse-based terminal where any text in a file becomes a button and you can just type directly into toolbars, or the amazing wholesom
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by mighmi 3y ago
How'd it get high adoption in that field?
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by mighmi 3y ago
People used to award others Dodgecoin and a few others for a while. At some point it even became worth a bit, before losing value again.
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by mighmi 3y ago
What's the purpose exactly? Who uses AlmaLinux exactly?
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by mighmi 3y ago
I'm curious to see how well the new groups will manage to flourish, and if the forums they set up will become larger platforms attracting discussions on other topics or if they will largely stay monotopical like the forums of yore time
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by mighmi 3y ago
Himmler et al. were believers in the World Ice Theory, championed by Scultetus in the SS. His popularity oscilated but at various points they were trying to use his ideas to predict the weather. The basic idea of the World Ice Theory is th
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by mighmi 3y ago
> as of 2016 or 2017 They converted it to a mosque in 2020.
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by mighmi 3y ago
I wish I had known that! I just left after ~8 months in Istanbul.
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by mighmi 3y ago
> force Sony to release their exclusive titles on Xbox. How much do ports normally cost? How many units would they need to move to hit even?
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Course for Hugo SSG Incl. CSS and HTML-Templating(hugo-mini-course.netlify.app)
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Hugo's documentation is rather awful hence explanations like https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo or https://dabase.com/e/04066/ I found this course to be a thorough explanat
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by mighmi 3y ago
Long story short: I decided to start using a separate laptop for work/tech stuff. Setting it up has been a bit of a pain: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/14vzvex/on_hp_la... To answer yo
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by mighmi 3y ago
What's Clojure's WASM story like? That would be much more exciting than having to transpile to JS.
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This is a very interesting thing I´d never considered. But looking back, it does seem to make a lot of sense. Iĺl try it out!
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> how well written this was for it’s time This is the first time I've encountered the sentiment that things have become better written in the last 3-6 generations. Are you really surprised that a book from 1946 would be well written
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by mighmi 3y ago
It takes people a long time to readjust preconceptions. Microsoft was the big bad for most of my life, but it took ~8 years after Ballmerś retirement for people to start noticing Microsoftś prestigious opensourcing, interesting cloud offeri
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by mighmi 3y ago
I say the above out of nostalgia for my past, when I was working in the Romanian and Russian speaking markets. In those days, charging people for software was a no go as you would just invite warz people to break them but infrastructure and
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by mighmi 3y ago
First of all, I love such perspectives. Could anyone point me to more similar things (describing the business worlds elsewhere)? Aside from corruption, funding etc. the author is in a veritable smorgasbord. There are countless unsolved prob

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